{"id":18432,"date":"2023-03-21T07:57:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T06:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/?p=18432"},"modified":"2023-03-21T08:04:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T07:04:52","slug":"new-album-the-van-pelt-artisans-merchants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/21\/new-album-the-van-pelt-artisans-merchants\/","title":{"rendered":"New album: The Van Pelt || Artisans & Merchants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between 1993 and 1997, American emo\/indie rock band The Van Pelt<\/a> – “making sounds for listeners” – made quite an impression with tastemakers. Their Sultans Of Sentiment<\/em><\/a> LP is truly a cult classic (re-issued last year), which now gets a worthy successor a quarter of a century later. I’ve listened to the nine new songs on Artisans & Merchants<\/em><\/a> quite often recently, but still can’t fully grasp them. On first hearing you would push this record into the post-punk corner, but it’s actually much richer than that. For example, check out how much is happening in exciting singles Grid<\/em> (with a cool video featuring skateboarder Keith Hardy) and Image of Health<\/em>\u00a0(“faith sounds like fate”), or in personal favorite Did We Hear the Same Song<\/em> (with a rhythm that could have been by Talking Heads). This is immersive music with amazing lyrics, a very welcome comeback.<\/p>\n